The founder of a small tech company has received support online after firing her sister.
In a post on Reddit‘s /r/AITAH subreddit, where Redditors ask their fellow social media users to evaluate their actions in a given situation, the 28-year-old CEO and founder asked if she was in the wrong for firing her younger sister, who had exposed private family matters at work.
The post—titled “AITAH for Firing My Sister After She Exposed Our Family’s Darkest Secrets at Work?”—quickly gained viral attention, receiving 12,000 upvotes in a matter of days, with more than 1,000 commenters weighing in on the dilemma and overwhelmingly backing the poster.
The CEO, posting under the handle /u/redditor_influencer, said she had hired her sister, who had recently lost her job, despite their “rocky relationship” and vastly different personalities. The CEO described herself as introverted and valuing privacy, whereas her sister, 24, was extroverted and often spoke without thinking.
Initially, …